Firda Beka

Utata Member

Bio

Born and raised in Indonesia, Firda Beka moved to Canada in 2004 to be with the love of her life. Indonesia and Canada are like night and day. When she just arrived in Canada, everything was new to her and it inspired her to take pictures of things that Canadians seemed to have taken for granted with an old Kodak point-and-shoot digital camera that had been generously donated to her by one of her weblog readers before her first trip to Canada. She admires and is influenced by the nature photography of Freeman Patterson and the landscape photography of Sherman Hines, both of whom are prominent Canadian photographers.

Testimonial

If one pieces together Firda Beka's photographs one seems to develop a pictorial journal of Firda's life. Her pictures say, "Look what I saw today!". Firda captures images of objects that many people may have never seen or noticed before. From abandoned umbrellas, to painted picket fences, to torn-up paper cups, Firda extracts the interesting from the mundane and displays it in her photo stream for viewers to take notice. Firda is probably the type of person who, when walking with a friend, points and exclaims, "Look at that", every few feet. Fortunately, instead of just sharing her revelations with her walking companions, Firda captures the image with her camera and shares it with the world.

Testimonial written by Amber Lujan